Hi Jose, Thanks for your response and further assistance.
At 09:45 AM 10/20/2001 -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: >One common source of problem which 8.1 exacerbates, through no fault of >it's own, is DMA on CD-ROM drives. > >Some CD-ROM/R/W drives do not co-exist well with hard drives on the same >IDE chain. These CD-RW drives can accept DMA access mode. > >Systems in turn do not favor dissimilar speeds on the same IDE bus. It >seems especially if older IDE cables are used (noise?). I suppose that the above refers to the Linux box which was in problem in installation. In this PC, C drive (ATA 33) is connected to primary IDE as master with a ATA33 cable and CDROM to secondary IDE also as master with a ATA33 cable. If I am wrong please correct me. >By turning off DMA on either the hard drive or CD ROM everything >works... Do you mean that start the Mandrake-Linux 8.1 and turn off DMA in BIOS. Or start the PC, turn off DMA in BIOS and re-install Mandrake-Linux 8.1 >I can manually turn on DMA after the system starts, but I have to be >careful with "marginal" CD's which will hang the computer during CD read >requests... How to turn on DMA after Mandrake-Linux 8.1 started ? >As I've mentioned, we only perform 2x writes for CD's which are going >out for mass production in my firm. This is to assure no problematic >reads on the duplication machines. > >When we go beyond 4x we will get failed batches, which is not good. Noted with thanks >|It was a A4 Tech 3 button-wheel PS/2 mouse. The installing program >|selected PS/2 standard mouse automatically and I was not allowed to >|change. If changed the monitor screen started to blink and I >|could not >|change it back to PS/2 standard mouse. Then the PC will re-start >|automatically. >| >|After Mandrake-Linux 8.1 started, in KDE I brought up >|HardDrake window and >|found the mouse there under HardDrake List. >| >|At re-boot the PC hanged during kill process with following >|warning pop-up >|............. >|................. >|Mainloop return consoleInit : no such device or address >|INIT : no more left in this runlevel > >This may well be another separate problem, no longer related to the >CD-Burn... > >Try "resetting" the PNP/PCI info in the BIOS and set the BIOS to >NON-PNP. OK >Bring up LM8.1 in text mode (initlevel 3) and kill off KDM/GDM if it is >running. Is it in Safe-Mode. I am not skill enough using combination-key without a mouse. Which command shall be used to kill off KDM/GDM ? >Then run mouseconfig to re-configure the mouse in text mode. Is it in Xterm window or any window ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen
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